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Name's Warren.-- Not actually from the U.K. but Canada, friend just pointed me in your direction as one of the better Betta forums
This isn't my first time keeping bettas, I've kept them before.... but this is the first time I've really considered breeding them
And my trial breeders are a couple of petshop bettas.
2 females - Ruby & Sapphire due to the coloration their fins possess
Ruby's fins are mainly dark red with an electric blue along the edges --- there is a hint a very small hint of brown at the base of her tail fin but mainly that tail fin is electric green and deep red - almost black
Sapphire's fins are more dark red with a distinctively bright blue dorsal fin ---- her fins are noticeably smaller than Ruby's particularly the dorsal as Ruby's dorsal is nearly twice the length of Sapphire's.
1 male - Rainbow
Rainbow is a pale bodied "red-washed" male with aquamarine at the base of his fins and a lighter red throughout. I picked him [after 1/2 hr of examining males] due to the fact that his tail is actually shortest amongst the male veiltail bettas and his dorsal is rather impressive when he was flaring in response to a couple of other males.
It also didn't help that he was most active, i.e. not lying on the bottom of the bowl he was in --- like most of the other males.
I also saw a really really beautiful all white no "red wash" -- probably pastel --- female at the petstore but unfortunately as I've read breeding pale females is harder [due to the lack of visible "bars"] I resigned to leave her there.
Got them yesterday, and started on a diet of freeze dried bloodworms and pellets ---- this okay???
Treating them with melafix - some tail damage
But otherwise, they seem fine.
Any advice on breeding petstore and/or bettas in general
Also, how can you tell an old betta from a younger one?
This isn't my first time keeping bettas, I've kept them before.... but this is the first time I've really considered breeding them
And my trial breeders are a couple of petshop bettas.
2 females - Ruby & Sapphire due to the coloration their fins possess
Ruby's fins are mainly dark red with an electric blue along the edges --- there is a hint a very small hint of brown at the base of her tail fin but mainly that tail fin is electric green and deep red - almost black
Sapphire's fins are more dark red with a distinctively bright blue dorsal fin ---- her fins are noticeably smaller than Ruby's particularly the dorsal as Ruby's dorsal is nearly twice the length of Sapphire's.
1 male - Rainbow
Rainbow is a pale bodied "red-washed" male with aquamarine at the base of his fins and a lighter red throughout. I picked him [after 1/2 hr of examining males] due to the fact that his tail is actually shortest amongst the male veiltail bettas and his dorsal is rather impressive when he was flaring in response to a couple of other males.
It also didn't help that he was most active, i.e. not lying on the bottom of the bowl he was in --- like most of the other males.
I also saw a really really beautiful all white no "red wash" -- probably pastel --- female at the petstore but unfortunately as I've read breeding pale females is harder [due to the lack of visible "bars"] I resigned to leave her there.
Got them yesterday, and started on a diet of freeze dried bloodworms and pellets ---- this okay???
Treating them with melafix - some tail damage
But otherwise, they seem fine.
Any advice on breeding petstore and/or bettas in general
Also, how can you tell an old betta from a younger one?
